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System Properties Comparison Elasticsearch vs. Heroic vs. Manticore Search vs. TigerGraph vs. VelocityDB

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NameElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score134.79
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.63
Rank#242  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score0.26
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score1.92
Rank#143  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#362  Overall
#38  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicmanticoresearch.comwww.tigergraph.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicmanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.tigergraph.comvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperElasticSpotifyManticore SoftwareVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20102014201720172011
Current release8.6, January 20236.0, February 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoElastic LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++C++C#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeFixed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoCan index from XMLnono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (GSQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.Net
Supported programming languages.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C++
Java
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functionsyesno
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenononoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesSynchronous replication based on Galera library
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlBased on Windows Authentication

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